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• Direct FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv diverted: Benjamin Netanyahu met passengers returning to Israel
As flight FZ1073 from Dubai to the Israeli city approached the Jordanian border on Wednesday, the journey suddenly turned into a nightmare when the plane began to rapidly lose altitude, due to an attack on one of the pilots.
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What happened on the FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv on Wednesday September 30? The plane had to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, announced the airline, which said it was not aware of the reasons for the altercation that occurred in the cockpit of the plane. “At this stage, the reasons and motivations behind this event are unknown and are subject to official investigation,” FlyDubai said in a statement, calling on “the various parties to refrain from premature speculation while the authorities establish the facts.” The passengers of the flight finally landed in Israel late Wednesday afternoon. Follow our live stream.
Benyamin Netanyahu meeting the passengers of the flight. The Israeli Prime Minister visited Tel Aviv Airport to meet those on board the FlyDubai flight as they arrived at their original destination.
An altercation between the pilots in the cockpit. According to the first versions, the co-pilot would have tried to rush the plane to the ground. The pilot then allegedly tried to control him with a knife, supported in the fight by passengers. According to Tabuk airport in the northwest of the kingdom, where the plane landed, the pilot and co-pilot were injured and were hospitalized. According to Israeli press reports, two other pilots, who were on the flight as passengers, took control of the plane and landed it.
Benyamin Netanyahu accuses one of the pilots of having wanted to cause a crash. The Israeli Prime Minister announced that one of the pilots of the FlyDubai flight, the one accused of stabbing his co-pilot, had been arrested and was being questioned by Saudi authorities. “During the flight, as they approached our country, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot, and apparently tried to crash the plane with everyone on board,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address.
No hypotheses excluded, including “terrorist”. A “terrorist tried to crash a plane to assassinate the 180 Israelis who were on board,” far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir then declared at midday. This diversion of the plane comes in the middle of a regional conflict but also in the run-up to elections in Israel. “The serious incident on board the FlyDubai flight was an attempted jihadist terrorist attack,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said.
“We saw blood.” “My daughter called me (...). She said that a pilot had tried to kill the other pilot with a knife,” Yasmine Abécassis told AFP while waiting for her daughter to return to Tel Aviv airport. “We heard screams in the plane. Afterwards they opened the cockpit and we saw blood, and that someone had stabbed the pilot with a pocket knife,” a passenger on the flight testified in a written message to the channel12.
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#FLYDUBAI The plane carrying passengers from the FlyDubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after an altercation between the pilots has landed in Tel Aviv, according to images broadcast by AFPTV. The aircraft landed on the tarmac of Ben Gurion airport at 6:34 p.m. local time (5:34 p.m. in Paris). Follow our live stream.
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#FLYDUBAI The plane carrying passengers from the FlyDubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after an altercation between the pilots has landed in Tel Aviv, according to images broadcast by AFPTV. The aircraft landed on the tarmac of Ben Gurion airport at 6:34 p.m. local time (5:34 p.m. in Paris).
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#FLYDUBAI Passengers on the FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv, forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, have resumed their journey aboard a new aircraft, one of them told AFP in a written message. According to Israeli media, 174 people were on board, including 166 Israelis.
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#FLYDUBAI “The serious incident on board the FlyDubai flight was an attempted jihadist terrorist attack,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement. However, he did not say what elements his accusations were based on, and neither the airline nor Saudi Arabia, where the incriminated co-pilot is detained, have so far corroborated this hypothesis. The reasons for the altercation between the two pilots are at this stage "unknown", FlyDubai said in a press release, calling on "the different parties to refrain from any premature speculation".
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#FLYDUBAI The Israeli Prime Minister announced that one of the pilots of the FlyDubai flight forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, accused of stabbing his co-pilot, had been arrested and was being questioned by Saudi authorities. “We are in constant contact with the authorities” of Saudi Arabia, Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address, adding that he had “ordered the [Israeli] security services to prepare for any additional potential threats.”
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#FLYDUBAI Benjamin Netanyahu claims that one of the pilots of the FlyDubai flight forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia was arrested and questioned by Saudi authorities.
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#FLYDUBAI Israeli authorities believe that one of the pilots of the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, which had to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, could have deliberately tried to crash the plane, an Israeli official told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. According to an Israeli source cited by the daily, "the pilot suspected of being the author of this act is of Omani origin, a country with which Israel does not maintain diplomatic relations." The co-pilot “would be from India”, this source further specifies to the newspaper.
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A witness cited by Haaretz explains that passengers seated at the front of the plane burst into the cockpit after realizing something was wrong. “An hour before landing, we felt that the plane was out of control, that it was starting to jump,” she explained. “The men saw that the plane had started to nosedive and burst into the cockpit.”
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Two other witnesses interviewed by the Israeli channel Channel 12 News and cited by Haaretz say that "people started shouting". “Then the plane started to pitch,” they add. “We understood that the pilots had lost control because one of them had been stabbed.”
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#WEATHER#METEO The Gard and Hérault are on red "rain-flood" alert due to a "very marked Mediterranean episode", according to Météo-France. Authorities are calling on residents to avoid traveling as the rains will continue until at least this evening. Follow our live stream.
#FLYDUBAI The Israeli government evokes the “terrorist” track after the emergency landing in Saudi Arabia of a plane linking Dubai to Tel Aviv (Israel). A fight between the pilots was the cause of the incident, according to the Israeli press.
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#FLYDUBAI First reaction of the Israeli government after the emergency landing of a plane in Saudi Arabia which linked Dubai to Tel Aviv (Israel). This emergency landing was due to the actions of a “terrorist” who wanted to crash the plane to kill its occupants, said Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. According to testimonies from passengers collected by AFP and Israeli media, the plane had to land in Saudi Arabia following an altercation between the two pilots, one of whom stabbed the other.
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#FLYDUBAI The Israeli government favors the terrorist track after the emergency landing in Saudi Arabia of a FlyDubai plane linking Dubai to Tel Aviv (Israel).
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